We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, Loadbalancer.org, and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."My customers have told me that the performance of this solution is good."
"The most valuable feature is the content switching."
"Very stable."
"This solution increases the backend network service performance, which is one of the things that we like the most."
"The load balancing feature and the fact that you can do context switching in the WAF are the most valuable. We majorly use it for load balancing, but we also use it for context switching in the WAF. It is also robust and very easy to work with and manage."
"Manageability and visibility are good."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"From a security standpoint, It is a comprehensive solution in a single box."
"It does what it’s supposed to do which is balancing an important intranet site we are using, so if one server dies, the second becomes active straight away."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife for managing all the load balancing techniques."
"We have about 30,000 connections going through at any one time and it's fine, it doesn't seem to sweat. It doesn't get overloaded."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"Improvements are needed to address the issue of machines becoming unregistered, ensuring stability for end users. Troubleshooting with Citrix support can be challenging, so clearer diagnostics would be beneficial. As for global server load balancing, it works well on-premises, depending on user volume and service stability. Overall, it's satisfactory for us."
"An area for improvement would be the difficulty in finding information about standard licensing costs over the internet. They should provide some reference prices on the net to be quickly referred to."
"Mastering it requires significant learning and training due to its complexity."
"ADC from Citrix has added functionalities from other products and the usability is very difficult for someone who is used to a simpler user interface, it's a little bit of a mess to use."
"Finding relevant documentation for learning NetScaler can be challenging, especially for beginners who prefer a web interface over command-line interfaces."
"I think the documentation should be improved."
"The solution is a bit more expensive than some of the available solutions in this region. One solution in particular that I noticed was cheaper was Kemp."
"I will try to migrate all the tools to the cloud because there is more lab and more VPN scalability available in the cloud. It is not available on-premises."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"If I have to say something, I suppose they could add an automated configuration backup to an FTP location (or something similar) so you don’t have to manually do it. I don’t see this as a problem, of course, as the configuration rarely changes and we only need one backup, but maybe for other users that feature would be handy."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"Compared to the physical products, the solution's throughput is a little less."
"We could enhance the security aspects of the load balancer."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"Performance could be improved."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The solution could be more robust."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."